Author: Francesca Nicholls

Six months ago I was an amateur in the media field. For so long I had knocked on the door of the media industry and was continually rejected. My heart grew sour; the ability to march on despite the continual knock backs began to bruise me. I did not know if I had much fight...

Knife crime has rapidly become an epidemic and this has propelled Sadiq Khan, our London Mayor, to seek change in our capital and the manner in which authorities and communities respond to knife crime. In his June 2017 ‘The London Knife Crime Strategy,’ Khan looks at solutions to knife crime. With data from the Metropolitan...

My heart wrenches for the terrible injustice served to Otto Warmbier. As many know, Otto Warmbier, after going on a trip to North Korea, was accused of trying to take a poster back to his home in Ohio, USA. In a press conference in North Korea he can be seen crying and praying for his family...

What on Earth is happening in this city? From terror attacks to pollution, the thick smog from traffic entirely preventing the ability to breath the sweet fresh air experienced by other people in England. Inhumanity and death, injustice and stereotyping, division between the poor and rich expanding every second at an exponential rate. What is...

On Friday the 16th, 3 days after the hellish fire of Grenfell Tower’s, my colleague Hannah Rose-Burns and I travelled to Latimer Road. I had already braced myself for a breadth and extremity of emotion in the community. It was not until I took the tentative steps from the tube station, into the midst of...

Channel 4 broadcasted one of the most interesting documentaries I have seen in recent months: ‘ISIS: The Origin of Violence.’ The documentary was presented and written by historian Tom Holland and traces back from its very beginning’s the birth of one of the most feared extremist groups on Earth – ISIS. Video footage from the...

Maximilian Somerset is an incredibly talented magician who is recognisable from such shows as ‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice’ on BBC and ‘Max Magic’ on Sky. As part of our Religion Special for London Undercover, airing on London Live TV and Community Channel, I filmed Max to see how he used magic to explain the existence of...

In Jeanette Winterson’s post-modern adaption of Shakespeare’s ‘A Winter’s Tale,’ Winterson explores how time, as she states at the close of her text, ‘is reversible.’ Through her text Winterson extrapolates from Shakespeare’s 1611 play that there is a shared commonality in the history of human beings, in the history of consciousness, that we all are...

It was a book that had always intrigued me; a book I was always so desperate to experience. It had all begun when my Latin teacher, the late Mr. Braakenburg, had talked of paedophilia in the Roman ages. ‘Oh, it’s quite a normal thing,’ he would guffaw across the table. ‘Totally and utterly normal, like homosexuality....

Often demonised throughout history it is no wonder that the word ‘pagan’ in the urban language is a term used to denounce someone. Meeting with Christina Oakley-Harrington, the proprietor of the esoteric bookshop ‘Treadwell’s,’ I learned more about what being a pagan truly means beyond the bastardisation of the word in colloquialisms. Entering the bookshop...